The 2016 Emmys began with the most groanworthy premise for an opening video imaginable, the “I’m late to the awards show” thing that was already exhausted when Jimmy Fallon did it back in 2005.
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He then gave Kimmel some advice on his Emmy candidacy.
After winning best comedy actress for a fifth consecutive time for HBO’s “Veep“, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who plays flawed USA president Selina Meyer on the show, said “I want to personally apologise for the current political climate”. After kicking the Emmys host out of the limo, Bush shouts, “Jeb exclamation point!”
Courtney B. Vance won an Emmy for his performance as lawyer Johnnie Cochran in The People v. O.J. Simpson.
Actor Matt Damon didn’t make the job any easier.
“Here’s what I know”.
The show began on Sunday with a pretty amusing tribute to “The People v. OJ Simpson”, as Kimmel found himself in a famous white Bronco before he was later picked up by Phil and the gang from “Modern Family”.
Moments later, the ever-nimble Kimmel gained his comeuppance when he introduced the next presenter as, “finally, a Damon with talent”.
As for Jimmy’s opening monologue, we’d say that it was for the most part a home run. “I play a young man who is, I think, like so many of us, profoundly alienated”, he told the crowd.
“I’m sure Donald was thrilled with him, I’m sure he’s emailing Jimmy right now saying thanks for the free media”, Burnett told reporters backstage.
“Hey, you’re driving me?” Later she had the audience eating out of her hand when she said: “I feel so lucky to be on a show that puts women at the center”.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, accepting her fifth consecutive best actress Emmy for HBO’s “Veep“, jokingly lamented that real politics is beginning to resemble the Washington world her comedy series pokes fun at.
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“Jimmy, that was a joke”, Jeb says.
